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- adjective Not
histrionic .
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Examples
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There's an unhistrionic fatalism in Captain Miller; he just wants to get the job done and get home alive, but his eyes tell you he doesn't like the odds.
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Philip's tone was too plain and positive: he would be a most practical unhistrionic rebel.
Celt and Saxon — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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Philip's tone was too plain and positive: he would be a most practical unhistrionic rebel.
Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Philip's tone was too plain and positive: he would be a most practical unhistrionic rebel.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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-- "What is passing?" repeats Collot, in the unhistrionic
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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They had been thoroughly demoralised, she declared, under Quast's maladministration, and had almost degenerated into the unhistrionic pussies of domestic life.
Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896
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